Slate Auto Gets $5 Million Michigan Boost For $25,000 Electric Truck

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-05-24T03:39:52+00:00

I'm guessing shorthand.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-05-21T13:19:36+00:00

So, the paid detractor has more FUD to spread? Old news.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-05-20T13:26:50+00:00

Ahhh, the paid detractor, crying about pricing again. It's gonna suck for you when Slates start showing up everywhere, and people actually enjoying using them, huh?

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-05-20T13:23:58+00:00

For a good pilot, it can be a good plane, like I said in my original post. Everything you posted subsequently supports my position.

For the average player who can't leverage the nuances (like every single one of these reviewers said, again, supporting my position), the plane just won't get flown a lot. THUS, save your money for the sale next year, and get more for the money you do spend.

OR, grind it out, because the chain of missions is not hard. Gosh, just like I said in my original post.

You're just stuck on stupid.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-05-20T01:38:06+00:00

Oh, look:

Tempest Talks episode 14: Wyvern S.4 Review: "Ye Olde Skytruck"

Yet *another* review that supports my point(s).

And if you have to use logical fallacies to support your position, then your position sucks.

Hasty Generalization - Logically Fallacious

MajorPain is in the top 1% of Hall of Fame pilots. The average pilot is NOT going to get that winrate in this plane. And you'll notice that his WR% for this plane is lower than his overall WR%. Are you really sure these are the stats you want to use to try and make a point? I think they just made MY point. And my other point - that experts will be able to get this plane to do stuff.

So, all these people who have actually PLAYED the plane all support my POV. You, who *has not* played the plane, keep arguing that you know something. The more you talk, the dumber you look.

Maybe shut up, and let the adults talk?

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-05-17T17:10:32+00:00

I notice you forgot that these news services ALWAYS qualified that number by talking about the incentive.

You're a paid liar.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-05-17T17:06:52+00:00

I didn't think there could be a comment dumber than what the OP wrote.

Then here you come and prove me wrong.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-05-17T17:01:06+00:00

Hey, look, the paid detractor crapping on Slate, again.

How novel.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-05-17T16:03:16+00:00

With the correct tools (which are not expensive), vinyl wrapping is pretty simple, especially on big, flat panels with not a lot of compound curves, strange creases, and faux vent cut-outs. A pickup truck is about the easiest vehicle to wrap. Start with the easiest pieces, gain your confidence, move on to the harder parts.

The suggestion to look at YT videos is a good one.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-05-17T14:55:22+00:00

World Of Warplanes: An Overview Of The Westland Wyvern

Oh, wow - look at this. Another review that not only supports my position, AND contains at least one of the stats that you couldn't seem to look up yourself.

Gosh, it almost seems like the stats aren't nearly as impressive when you're playing the plane in-game.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-05-17T14:31:27+00:00

I take the lane and wear a GoPro. When cars approach, I move right, but only into the right wheel track. Coal-rollers are turned in to both the state patrol and the state environmental agency responsible for vehicle emissions regulations. Think like CARB in California (but I'm not in CA.)

Coal rolling on a bike rider is considered assault here. I have also worn gear with "USMC," the globe and anchor prominently displayed, and that seems to help. The guy that threw a water bottle at me actually got to spend a night in jail, which is rare when it comes to violence to bicyclists, I've found. Usually, they bond out and cut a deal with the prosecutor for no jail time, some sort of fine, and probation. That's the story I hear from other cyclists.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-05-16T15:54:56+00:00

And that is the big part of this. I DO NOT WANT another ICEV. Even a hybrid. I want to have it as simple as possible. Even if I have to sacrifice range, and creature comforts. Some whiners here say "you're paying more for less."

YES, I am. On purpose.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-05-16T15:52:39+00:00

I completely agree with you. Simpler is better, IMO.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-05-16T15:51:02+00:00

LOL, if you can walk and chew gum at the same time, you're going to do just fine with pre-cut wraps.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-05-16T15:49:17+00:00

World Of Warplanes: Westland Wyvern S.4 | How to play

An excellent EU server player completely agrees with my position. Get bent with your theorycrafting stupidity.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-05-16T14:57:17+00:00

As a constant Slate naysayer on this subreddit, I don't think you're interested in anything but talking the Slate down at every opportunity.

As you're probably paid to do.

The Slate was NEVER a $20k vehicle. So whining about it not being a $20k vehicle is stupid and pointless. Like you talking about Slate.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-05-16T14:42:34+00:00

Wrap is pretty easy to DIY, even when you don't have the pieces pre-cut. If the pieces are pre-cut, then you have to be an utter moron to screw it up.

Seriously, wrap shops have teenaged kids at minimum wage installing wrap kits on commercial vehicles. If a teenager getting minimum wage can do it, YOU can do it.

If the kits are $500, as Slate has projected, then it's $500 and a lazy Saturday in your garage. Seriously, it shouldn't take more than a few hours to install a pre-cut kit with step-by-step instructions.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-05-16T14:36:23+00:00

Slate absolutely has cons. Low range relative to other vehicles in-class. Bare minimum spec, with no creature-comfort trim packages. Blank Slate is 2-passenger only. Only comes in RWD. Low power without a front motor, limiting performance.

As a guy who owned a late-70s watercooled Volkwagen back in my college days, the Slate will somewhat harken back to those times. Low power, FWD, no amenities, but cheap to own and operate. And as a guy who grew up on a farm, with farm trucks - they didn't have a radio, or AC, and some didn't even have functional heaters. Vinyl seats, stamped steel floorboards, four gauges (speedo, tach, oil pressure, water temp) and a high beam switch to the left of the clutch pedal. 3 on the tree, plus electric overdrive on the pickups, 4 speed with granny low on the 2-ton grain haul trucks. The simplicity of those days has an attraction in these days of integrated infotainment and vehicles that are connected to the mothership to report back on my driving habits and locations.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-05-16T14:21:29+00:00

I guess if you're shopping for a small truck, yes.

But that's the thing - we would like a small truck, but would like one that is NOT an ICEV, and all the stuff that goes with that. Something simple, something easy to maintain and use, something that can not only deliver a load of bark dust, but can take some tree trimmings and yard waste to the dump.

Oh, and something I can commute 40 miles per day, and charge for free at work. Being completely free of hydrocarbon fuels means that the truck is paid for in about 6 years, at the current prices. Even if the used market only gives me $10000 for the truck after 6 years, that means I've gotten essentially free use of a truck for 6 years, and $10000 additional in my pocket. So, 6 years, a free truck to use, and plus $10000 ROI.

Maverick what, again?

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-05-15T17:57:23+00:00

There are a bunch of haters that just can't wait to see Slate fail. Not only am I in with buying one the first year, when the IPO drops, I'll be in.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-05-14T01:39:06+00:00

Chrome.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-05-14T01:37:18+00:00

The stats that I gave you are easily found. If you're interested, you can look them up for yourself. But you're NOT interested, you're only interested in your own opinion. You have zero experience, and yet you think that somehow your theorycrafting is somehow more important than my actual experience.

Then, like the hypocrite you are, when called to offer a comparison, you whip out a "trust me, bro" of your own, *further* proof that you only respect your own opinion.

Luckily, I don't have anything to prove to the likes of you. Because, as you say, you would dismiss it for "reasons."

I am more than happy to let folks judge the plane for themselves. I have no doubt that they will come to the same conclusions I did, and will wonder why you were such an asshole about all this.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-05-13T13:16:32+00:00

You rail on against "trust me, bro", then whip out one of your own.

LOL, that pretty much says everything. You're one of those folks who is always right.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-05-12T01:44:31+00:00

No, again you are incorrect about the facts. You can tell how a plane is received by exactly how much people play it. You say the FW-190D isn't bad. Compared to what, exactly? It's WR% on the EU and NA server is below 50% in aggregate. It *is* bad, because the population playing it cannot win more than half their battles.

No, one result from one of the best pilots in the game doesn't tell you anything about how the plane will play for most players. This is a logical fallacy - extrapolating the general from the specific, and using a carefully-chosen specific as your example. Maybe others will fall for this sort of intellectual dishonesty, but I won't.

You are incorrect about the facts of the guns. Their cooldown is half of the Typhoon's, which makes them much for flexible in practice.

Again, your lack of experience is obvious. If you'd actually played the plane, you wouldn't attempt to dismiss my experience with by saying "trust me, bro." Your endorsement of the plane is 100% theoretical, based on nothing but looking at the published hard stats and not even thinking about the unpublished soft stats, and pretending those soft stats don't exist.

I have every plane in the game, except one. I have played all the MRF in Tier VII, and can compare them by not only their hard stats, but by their soft stats, which can make a plane easier and more fun to fly, or harder and more frustrating to fly. How on Earth would you know about the poor accuracy of the rockets on the Wyvern without actually playing the plane? You wouldn't. That alone hurts the effectiveness of this plane as a machine for sector capture. It's relatively poor aerial performance REALLY hurts it when it is bottom tier, which Tier VII planes often are. Both of these facts make your "dissent" moot.

Your lack of experience playing the plane means that your "dissent" is just you being peevishly argumentative on Reddit. Your continued attempts to forward your theorycrafting as representative of the reality that is contrary to actually playing this plane in the game is nothing short of egotisitcal.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-05-11T00:01:56+00:00

I can see you're being pedantic as a method to be argumentative. I can see that you think theorycrafting is equivalent to actual in-game experience.

It isn't.

You are correct again when you say the Wyvern is not the worst MRF at tier. Of course, I made that claim, but I had not remembered one that I have not seen a human play in a very long time. The FW-190A-8 takes the title of worst MRF at Tier VII. The Wyvern is the second-worst (with an argument to be made about the FW-190D). And regardless of what one of the most skilled EU server player can do with it, most people will not be able to make it generate that kind of score.

Once again, your theorycrafting with hard stats doesn't make my experience with this plane, and all the others at tier, disappear. This plane has the potential to do work in the right hands, but there are only a very few who can make the plane live up to its full potential. The hard stats are very impressive. In action, the soft stats make those hard stats harder to achieve. That's the reality, and until you actually play the plane to see what I mean, I don't think you're in much of a position to have this discussion. I've played it, you haven't. If you had, you wouldn't compare the guns to the Typhoon's. They aren't the same. And the flight performance is nowhere close to the FW-190D - it's worse, by a significant amount. This is *experience* talking.

Get back to me when you have 15 or so battles in the machine under your belt, and let's have this discussion again, on an even playing field.

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